Today, I’m super excited to reveal the first details of our brand new PlayStation minis title — Who’s That Flying!? This summary from the games writer and producer Jim is a great overview on what you can expect:

You are the mysterious and powerful creature known only as the “Guardian of Earth.” Your steely eye and HYPER-POWERED LASER ARM have kept the citizens of Earth safe for generations (as well as proving a hit with the ladies).

With all your awesome TALENT and FLAIR, surely it would be IMPOSSIBLE for a sudden and devastating invasion of colossal Doom Beasts to descend on your cities and cause havoc without your knowledge? (Even if you were MAYBE showboating for a magazine photo shoot at the time…)

Now, you must not only defend your cities from the ravenous hordes of Doom Beasts, you must defend yourself against accusations of gross incompetence from the Galactic Council of Justice! And this is all BEFORE you can even start to get to the bottom of just who OR what is really behind the attacks…

It’s a side-scrolling shooter meets tower defense (with courtroom drama and intrigue!) doused in sheer awesomeness… AND THEN SET ON FIRE.

At the centre of the game is the Story mode, which follows the hero through 15 levels across six worlds protecting the Earth from the invasion of the Doom Beasts. Like our previous game Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess, the story mode in WTF?! features beautiful animated cut-scenes as you unravel the mysteries of the invasion. In WTF?! these scenes are set in the chambers of the Galactic council with the Guardian of Earth being interviewed on his actions.

The game’s core mechanic is a mixture of side-scrolling shooting and tower defense. As the hero you must prevent a certain number of enemies from escaping into the city in each level in order to save the city from the invasion.

As the ultra-powerful hero you’re both awesome and indestructible, but getting hit will put you out of action for a while — giving your enemies a chance to escape. If you let too many enemies past you, the city will be destroyed and you’ll lose the level.

In addition to the Story mode, the game has four different “infinite” mode levels and a special challenge mode with 25 unique challenges to tackle. We’ve managed to squeeze in a lot of great content.

We’ve finished the game and are currently going through the age-rating process, so at present we’re anticipating a launch in early September. For breaking news on the game as it happens you can follow us on Twitter.

If anyone has any questions I’m happy to answer them — just post them in the comments below!

Wow…out of nowhere and looking FANTASTIC! What a beautiful looking shooter, and with TD mechanics no less? I can’t wait! Good thing September is right around the corner else you might have mutiny on your hands.

Monsters was such an awesome and hilarious game. I’m definitely looking forward to this.

One question: There was a sound glitch in Monsters that would play a kind of annoying CHHK sound at the beginning of every cutscene, for me at least. Any chance of a patch, and will that be a problem here?

Hi Guys – Paul will be with us shortly! I’m Jim, the writer and producer on the title.

Great to hear some of the positive comments – thank you!

Paul will deal with most of the queries, but I can answer the one on game length. The main story mode has 15 levels that take around 3 minutes on average to complete (if you’re good!). After that you can unlock a further set of 24 unique Challenge Mode levels, and four “Infinite” modes.

We know that some people found the story mode on Monsters a little shorter that they would have liked (we literally ran out of space! We only get 100MB…) so that’s something we definitely had in mind for Who’s That Flying?!.

If you have any questions on the gameplay, story and character, I’ll be happy to field them for the moment!

Thanks again for the support and great response to Monsters and our new game so far!

I loved Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess!! That game eventually strained by thumb muscles but I kept playing through the pain. Loved the art on that game and this game looks to be in the same pleasant art style.

Not the biggest side scrolling shooter fan but I will pick this up because of the previous game and because it will be cheap being a mini.

Not sure how the tower defense will work into it. My guess is you can drop a drone that auto-shoots.

We’re releasing in all territories that have minis support – if you don’t have MPSMP in Mexico it’s likely you don’t have the program in your territory yet, we’ll need to wait for Sony to start the program there.

Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess was my 1st PSP minis game I bought! I fricken loved everything about it (my favorite mini hands down)! I hope we will get awesome music, awesome story, and just lovable characters! Yes even the monster’s in the game were lovable! I will buy this one for sure!! I even have a Plus, but I wont wait until 2-3 down the road to get this for FREE.

OMG its WFT?! im really into side scrolling shooting flying games..and this one is a first day purchase..when ever that day is :p hopefully it has custom sound tracks so i can take out my enemies with some EMINEM while i eat M&Ms :p

I agree. It’s awesome to see such dedication to a Mini title. Obviously the Monsters sale was to announce this game to people who buy it due to the sale. It’s cool to see so much thought would go in to a little 5 dollar game. :D
Anyway. Monsters was amazing. I remember played it nonstop in my first period class when it came out. haha. >.>